Credit & Copyright: Aleix Roig
(AstroCatInfo)
Explanation:
Which star created this bubble?
It wasn't the bright star on the bubble's right.
And it also wasn't a giant space
dolphin.
It was the star in the blue nebula's center, a famously energetic
Wolf-Rayet star.
Wolf-Rayet stars in general
have over 20 times the mass of
our Sun and expel fast
particle winds that can create
iconic
looking
nebulas.
In this case, the resulting star bubble spans over 60 light years, is about 70,000
years old, and happens to look like the head of a dolphin.
Named
Sh2-308 and dubbed the
Dolphin-Head Nebula,
the gas ball lies about 5,000
light years
away and covers as much sky as the
full moon -- although it is much dimmer.
The nearby red-tinged clouds on the left of the
featured
image
may owe their glow and shape to energetic light emitted from the same
Wolf-Rayet star.
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туманность - звезды Вольфа-Райе - звездный ветер - Wolf-Rayet star
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